Eleanor's Mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt Talk about the dynamics between Sara, the children, and the parents. My father and his siblings were quite spoiled by their grandmother. And again ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Roosevelt was born in 1882 and grew up in Hyde Park, his family's sprawling estate in New York, as the only child of two doting parents. He was particularly close to his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt.